Rachael Unsworth

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Rachael Unsworth

Rachael Unsworth

@LeedsTours

Urban geographer & local walking tour guide 🌍 Researcher, writer, presenter, Leeds Phil & Lit events, gardener, musician 🎻 https://t.co/kQ0ysy6APG

Leeds, England เข้าร่วม Aralık 2018
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@DeborahMeaden I reposted and then deleted because I thought it *must* have been a spoof. So gross. And pretty sure that the late Christopher Reeve would NOT have been pleased to be used: behind the still from this crass sequence is a still from banned 1991 documentary about DJT. Link in ALT.
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I held back on posting because I couldn’t believe it was genuine. This is n exciting, Hollywood style movie they watch from the safety and comfort of afar their children, women, families not subjected to the terror too many in the Middle East endure daily, hourly, minutely… it’s beyond … anything… and then not..
Harry Eccles@Heccles94

This is a genuine White House video. What is wrong with America. 165 school girls are dead, and they think this is funny? Over 1000 dead in Iran. Over 72,000 dead in Gaza. America thinks it's all a game? Disgraceful doesn't even come close.

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@Ilkleyu3a Thanks for inviting me and for such a warm welcome. It will be great to follow on with walking tours in Leeds.
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🔸Over 60 members of Northern Towns group found out about terracotta and how it adorns so many buildings in #Leeds 🔸Fascinating talk by Rachael Unsworth of @LeedsTours 🔸Members will visit Leeds soon to see the terracotta for themselves 👉Group info: ilkleyu3a.org/Northern-Towns…
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@singleaspect Not that I’ve heard/read. Burt and Grady, in their 1992 publication, left the cause of the fire as uncertain.
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OTD 1975 fire destroyed 2/3 of Leeds Kirkgate Market. The back of the market was rebuilt – 1976 Hall. Photos & press cuttings are on display till the end of Dec in the grand 1904 Hall, which wasn’t damaged in the fire. news.leeds.gov.uk/news/rememberi….
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@elonmusk None of the countries in the EU have gone to war with each other since they created it. Go back a thousand years before the creation of the EU and you will not find a period where none of the countries were at war with another.
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@PoppyLegion Our Dad was on a tank landing ship too. He was the same age as John Fiddler (but died age 88). I wonder if perhaps they were on the very same ship?
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We’re thrilled to share the news that 100-year-old D-Day veteran John Fiddler has received France’s highest honour, the Legion d’Honneur, for his role in the liberation of France in 1944. John served on a tank landing ship during D-Day, transporting supplies to Normandy. (1/2)
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I asked GROK: What are the main negative effects that extremely wealthy people can have? ANSWER 1. Distortion of Democracy & Policy 2. Exacerbation of Economic Inequality 3. Environmental Degradation 4. Market Distortions & Monopolistic Practices 5. Social & Cultural Impacts
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Public Service Announcement (unofficial) When doing a recce for a tour the other day, I spotted that the Whitehall Waterfront footbridge will be closed from today until ... (no info). Impossible to cross between the left bank of the river & the canal towpath at the moment. 2021:
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OTD 1775 bad floods hit Leeds. Our most recent serious flood was Dec 2015. Since then, flood defences in the city centre have been completed & work is in progress on ‘natural flood management’ to reduce risk. See this by Leeds author Chris Nickson: bigbookend.co.uk/here-came-the-…
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Ralph Thoresby (Aug 1658 - Oct 1725), son of John Thoresby, a woollen cloth merchant & keen antiquarian who started a museum collection at his Kirkgate house. Ralph went to Leeds Grammar School, added to the museum, researched & wrote. His book on Leeds is a guide to his town.
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5.30pm Sunday 19 October Service marking 300th anniversary of death of Ralph Thoresby, historian Music by composers Thoresby would have heard: Tomkins, Purcell, Handel thoresby.org.uk/index.html - historical society of Leeds founded 1889
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4/4 The fragment of the Third White Cloth Hall on Crown Street opened in 2024 as a bar + kitchen. Hope there’s a good old 250th birthday party going on.
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3/4 The Third White Cloth Hall was built on an irregularly shape ‘tenterground’: a patch of land where cloth was stretched out on wooden frames, attached by tenterhooks. In 1869, the railway viaduct cut through the hall. A 4th hall was built but soon the Met Hotel replaced that.
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2/4 The Third White Cloth Hall was vast, with room for around 1,200 stalls. Markets were held on Saturdays and Tuesdays. Some of it remains, with the most substantial part being the north wing on top of which the Assembly Rooms were built as a venue for meetings & entertainments.
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1/4 In the 1770s, the Second White Cloth Hall south of the river was too small for the burgeoning market in woollen cloth. The Third White Cloth Hall opened OTD 1775. Handloom weavers spread their cloth for inspection by merchants, who exported much of it by boat.
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